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Sponsor asks committee to indefinitely postpone LB301 on law-enforcement certification for noncitizen workers
Summary
Senator Teresa Ibach asked the Judiciary Committee to indefinitely postpone LB301, a bill that would have allowed people authorized to work in the U.S. to obtain law enforcement certification; the sponsor cited potential federal funding consequences and withdrew the bill from active consideration.
Senator Teresa Ibach introduced LB301, a bill she said was drafted in response to a prior commitment and stakeholder input to allow noncitizen workers authorized to work in the United States to obtain law enforcement certification if a local agency chose to hire them. She told the committee that because of recent federal actions the…
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